This generation was both phenomenal and utter horseshit, moreso than the previous one.
The amount of companies who went downhill HARD is unreal. Capcom, Konami, Square-Enix, etc. Kings of the PS2 era, they produced utter dross in this era on a regular basis.
Gonna be an interesting generation, the next one.
Those companies are just pure console devs. Then PC devs and their software/hardware ways started invading the scene. Since everything now is pretty much in the hands of these PC devs, good ol' fashioned console devs have been left behind - hence the loss of mid-tier devs and the like of Square.
I still reckon one or two devs/publishers will not make it far in a few years time. I'm expecting one out of Capcom, Konami, Square-Enix and Namco to be a completely different company and one out of EA, UbiSoft, Rockstar/Take2 and Activision to fuck up big, financially.
It started great, went downhill a couple of years later. Specially if you owned an Xbox 360.
Dead Rising, Gears of War,FIFA with actual good gameplay, etc were the key moments.Viva Piñata,
Oh, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of great games to enjoy, but the whole gen just stank off bullshit business practices.
Thinking about the shit Konami has done this gen makes me angry.
They're dead to me.